Someone selling homebrew quests on ebay

[chaoticprime]

I don't believe this story at all.

[TMU]

It's true either way

[el_flesh]

Ya, Sjeng, the problem is that there are lots of weaselly little cowards that talk really big so long as they can hide behind anonymity. The prick who pulled this $ stunt, not giving a *lemony goodness* who he damaged deserves alot more than a punch in the face. That would serve for an introduction.

[Sjeng]

news!

But I'm always there.
I'm watching you ...

About no DM rules, we went far away you can imagine : we simply created a random generator using some tokens to print and by using some dices to roll.

Then with printer studio, we have decided to make card decks to generate monsters, objectives, events, exploration etc etc.
But ... we've stopped everything due to a problem with Hasbro and a fan who attemped to sold our remaster on ebay.

We're finally back but we need to finish the 4th expansion then we'll remaster the 2 last from the USA. After this, we'lle present you the FORTRESS KIT which will conclude perfectly the remaster project : no game master, randomized goal quests, monster matrices, etc

All this will be published on http://www.lessouterrainsoublies.fr
We're traducing our work in spanish (rule book & cards are already done) then in English for your pleasure.


About space crusade remaster, it is done by a fan and we hide his work into the forum. There's also another Remaster planed and I can't tell you more.

[Daedalus]

Yeah, I wanna know, too. What happened to them?

HQFrance made a revised edition right, and this Play-Doh factory downloaded it and sold it on eBay. Next, HQFrance gets a C&D note from MB (?) and they had to take their entire website offline. All their work offline because of some random schmuck. I'd punch the guy in the face if I saw him.

That's the whole point - who tried to enfoce their copyright on Heroquest? Is there actually a company/person owning them? MB doesn't even exist aymore - it's just a brand name owned by Hasbro. If some "copyright owner" sued HQFrance and got right in the court, then we would at least have a name to deal with.

A link to the thread Sjeng is referring to: http://www.yeoldeinn.com/hqforum/viewtopic.php?f=58&t=1628&p=20201&hilit=hasbro+eu#p20201

The EU branch of Hasbro still holds the trademark for Hero Quest on that side of the pond, so the releasing of the lawyers is a real threat there.

[Goblin-King]

All in all - that's the potential drawback of writing names and websites at the end credits of a quest...

I guess we'll have to start putting in something like:
This is a free document. If you were asked for money you've been scammed. You twat.

[Sjeng]

I'm already doing that in my PDF's.